Galium sylvaticum L.

Perennial 4–8 dm, erect or nearly so, glabrous except for the antrorsely scabro-ciliate lf-margins; lvs in 6’s or 8’s, thin, narrowly lanceolate, 2.5–5 cm × 5–8 mm, broadest near or below the middle, acute, pale beneath; infls several, divaricately spreading from the upper axils, forming a large diffuse panicle; pedicels very slender; cor white, 2–3 mm wide, its lobes acuminate; fr smooth; 2n=22. Native of Europe, occasionally found along roadsides and in thickets in N. Engl. and N.Y. Aug.